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href="../1_timothy/6.htm" title="1 Timothy 6">◄</a> 2 Timothy 1 <a href="../2_timothy/2.htm" title="2 Timothy 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/2_timothy/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Greeting</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>To Timothy, my beloved child:</p><p class="regular">Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.</p> <p class="heading">Guard the Deposit Entrusted to You</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>who saved us and called us to<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or with">a</a></sup></span> a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek before times eternal">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or what I have entrusted to him; Greek my deposit">c</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Follow the pattern of the sound<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or healthy">d</a></sup></span> words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>but when he arrived in Rome he searched for me earnestly and found me— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_timothy/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day!—and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Or <i>with</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Greek <i>before times eternal</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> Or <i>what I have entrusted to him</i>; Greek <i>my deposit</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i>healthy</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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